Australian Mail Contracts.
PORTS OF CALL. MELBOURNE, April 5, J Some technical details have still 1 to, be arranged over the mail contract, which, it is understood, will be for three years, the ports of call to bo Freuiantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. Whitj labour conditions will be insisted on. A WHITE AUSTRALIA. IS IT A SAFE HORSE ? (Received Aplil li, 0.14 a.m.} I LONDON, April 3. | The Times says the Motherland's principal feeling regarding the reviv- | al of the weekly mail is satisfaction that the difficulty is overcome. li 1 Australians care to pay £35,000 per' i annum for the privilege of excluding i British Indians on the Orient Company's boats, that is their own affair. They are hardly likely to rescind sect-ion 16 of thr agreement for the purpose of escaping this burden, but after this check at the first fcnco they might at least ask themselves i whether the White Australia doc- ] trine was altogether a safe horse to | ride. f ADDITIONAL SUBSIDY. |] (Received April 6, 1.13 a.m.) 1 BRISBANE, April 5. I The Government is prepared to | add £20,000 to the Orient Comr pany's mail subsidy if the steamers s call at Brisbane. h - «>
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 791, 6 April 1905, Page 3
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198Australian Mail Contracts. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 791, 6 April 1905, Page 3
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